RULES FOR VISITORS AND OUTER SISTERS, 1872

1 To keep silence until after Terce, and also from 10 till 12, and from 2 till 4, and after Compline. On Sundays and Festivals silence is to be kept only until after Terce and after Compline.

II Not to speak on the stairs, or in the passages, and to go about the House and shut the doors quietly.

III Not to ask any inmate of the House to do an errand without first obtaining permission of the Superior or Assistant Superior.

IV To ask no questions concerning any of the inmates of the House, or the arrangements or discipline of the Establishment, except of the Superior or Assistant Superior.

V Not to speak of, or canvass the affairs of other religious Houses, nor to talk of what they did, or of what happened to them whilst they were inmates there.

VI To retire to their bedrooms at 8.30 P.M. unless they go to Compline, and then at once from the Chapel to their bedrooms. VII Not to go into each others’ bedrooms at any time without special permission, or to speak to each other through the partitions.

VIII Not to lend books to each other without permission. No Roman Catholic books to be left about either in the Common Room or in their bedrooms. No newspapers to be brought into the Common Room.

IX When desirous of speaking to the Superior or Assistant Superior they must inform the Portress: but may never waylay any Sister in the passage, or on the stairs, or go after her when at her work: neither may they go to any of the appartments appropriated to the Sisters, or to the Superior's room without permission. The Portress must be summoned by ringing the bell in the Common Room, not the call-bell.

X Not to talk over the District,3 or any poor person, or any other work with each other. Those who visit in the District must receive their orders from the Assistant Superior, and give in their reports to her. This extends to all works connected with the Home.